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Post-Chornobyl: Catastrophism in Contemporary Ukrainian Culture

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Dr. Tamara Hundorova, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Dr. Hundorova is a Doctor of Philological Sciences and a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; she is the Head of the Department of Theory of Literature in the Academy’s Institute of Literature. She is the author of 8 books and many articles on literary modernism, postmodernism, Ukrainian literature, and feminism.

Dr. Hundorova has taught courses at the Harvard Summer School and at the Greisfwald Ukrainicum; she has lectured at Toronto University (Canada), Free Ukrainische Universitat (Germany), Kyiv-Mohyla University and Kyiv National University (Ukraine).

Yuri Shevchuk, Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages, apepared on the English broadcast division of Hromadske Radio (Ukraine’s Public Radio) to discuss contemporary Ukrainian filmmaking. You can read the transcript and listen to the show here.

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Volodymyr Kulyk, Head Research Fellow at the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Sergei Zhuk, Professor of Russian and Eastern European History at Ball State University, of his book Soviet Americana: The Cultural History of Russian and Ukrainian Americanists (I.B. Tauris, 2018).

The Harriman Institute and the Russian American Cultural Center (RACC) present an exhibition curated by Regina Khidekel. Many Russian émigré artists have invigorated the New York art scene over the past three decades. The '90s was a particularly vibrant decade for integration and the search for relevance in the realm of contemporary art and critical discourse, areas that had been lacking in Russia during the post-Soviet transition. This exhibition aims to revitalize the history of Russian artists in New York during the 1990s and early aughts.